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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Falling Action
Tone
Symbol
Falling Meter
2. The main character of a literary work.
Ode
Protagonist
Ballad
Dialogue
3. The time and place of a story or play.
Pyrrhic
Tone
Setting
Elegy
4. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Dactyl
Suspense
Villanelle
Image
5. A short saying with a moral.
Aphorism
Point of View
Legend
Falling Action
6. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Trochee
Folklore
Connotation
Dialogue
7. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Convention
Nonfiction
Point of View
Narrator
8. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Parody
Dramatic Irony
Reversal
Anapest
9. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Motif
Characterization
Ballad
Flashback
10. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Elision
Dialogue
Quatrain
Trochee
11. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Setting
Author's Purpose
Rising Action
Iamb
12. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Understatement
Parody
Ballad
Character
13. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Sestina
Verbal Irony
Rhythm
Tone
14. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Sonnet
Dialect
3rd Person (Limited)
Foreshadowing
15. A strong pause within a line.
Scenes
Stereotype
Caesura
Theme
16. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Apostrophe
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Motif
17. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Quatrain
Folklore
Satire
Iamb
18. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Cliche
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Solioquy
Internal Conflict
19. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Rhythm
Suspense
Fiction
Lyric Poem
20. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Epiphany
Iamb
Nonfiction
Dactyl
21. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Mood
Irony
Reversal
Flashback
22. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Understatement
Parable
Literal Language
Trochee
23. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Caesura
Complication
Catharsis
Theme
24. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Analogy
Dactyl
Symbolism
Comic Relief
25. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Sestina
Understatement
Personification
Mood
26. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Aside
Falling Action
Satire
Subplot
27. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Spondee
Repetition
Oxymoron
Audience
28. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Analogy
Villanelle
Closed Form
29. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Myth
Rising Action
Couplet
Onomatopoeia
30. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Stanza
Antagonist
Ballad
Hyperbole
31. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Imagery
Dactyl
Metaphor
Allegory
32. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Understatement
Sestet
Ballad
Oxymoron
33. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
Flashback
Epic
Convention
Dactyl
34. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Audience
Hyperbole
Elegy
Solioquy
35. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Syntax
Paradox
Quatrain
Setting
36. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Subplot
Structure
Image
Conceit
37. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Oxymoron
Rhythm
Sestina
Parody
38. The organizational form of a literary work.
Dactyl
Structure
Parable
Act
39. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Situational Irony
Iamb
Antagonist
Hyperbole
40. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Irony
Mood
Allegory
Nonfiction
41. The person who 'tells' the story.
Climax
Denotation
Narrator
Epigram
42. A character struggles against some outside force.
External Conflict
Meter
Legend
Structure
43. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Theme
Ballad
Falling Meter
Foil
44. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet
Analogy
Rising Action
Cliche
45. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Characterization
Sestina
3rd Person (Omniscient)
46. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Recognition
Foil
Foreshadowing
47. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Tercet
Allusion
Foot
48. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Image
Blank Verse
Epiphany
Subplot
49. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Foil
Syntax
Epic
Denouement
50. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Foreshadowing
Catharsis
Image
Simile